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Kinder Coders

Our first attempt with coding!

Coding is increasingly considered a crucial skill. Teaching kids to code provides them with several benefits, including but not limited to:
  1. Problem-solving Skills: Learning to code helps kids develop strong problem-solving abilities. Coding involves breaking down complex problems into smaller parts, logically organizing and analyzing data, and creating step-by-step solutions – skills that are useful in many life situations.
  2. Creativity and Innovation: Coding can be a platform for kids to express their creativity. They can use it to design websites, create games, build apps, and more. It's a tool for innovation, allowing them to create new things from their ideas.
  3. Understanding the Digital World: As we become more dependent on technology, understanding how it works becomes increasingly important. Coding can help kids comprehend and navigate the digital world around them.
  4. Career Opportunities: With the increasing demand for computer science skills in nearly every industry, learning to code can open a world of career opportunities for kids. Even in non-tech roles, the ability to understand and utilize basic coding can be a significant advantage.
  5. Confidence and Resilience: Through coding, kids learn to embrace failure as a part of the learning process. Debugging a program teaches them that mistakes are opportunities for learning and improvement, building their resilience and confidence.
  6. Mathematical Skills: Coding can enhance a child's mathematical abilities. It involves concepts like patterns, variables, and conditional logic that can help reinforce what kids learn in their math classes.
  7. Critical Thinking: Coding requires a high degree of critical thinking and foresight, requiring coders to anticipate and plan for different outcomes and scenarios. These critical thinking skills are valuable in many different areas of life.
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  • Home
  • About
  • K-8 Education
    • Kindergarten >
      • Change Agents
      • Little Pail Patrol vs Pacific Garbage Patch
      • Simple Machines
      • Intro to Coding
      • Marble Runs
      • Intro to Engineering
      • Invent!
      • Ocean Currents
      • Movie Making
    • First Grade >
      • Wildlife Corridors
      • Stop Motion
      • Marble Runs
      • Coding
      • Rube Goldberg Machines
    • Second Grade >
      • Spider Monkey Escape
      • Bees
      • Circuits
      • Homemade Coding
      • Coding Robots
    • Third Grade >
      • Identity: Who Am I?
      • Planetary Lander
      • Wildlife Corridors
      • Coding Bees
      • Stop Motion
      • Genie In A Bottle
    • Fourth Grade >
      • Claymation: Juan Ponce de Leon
    • Fifth Grade
    • Sixth Grade >
      • History >
        • The Fertile Crescent
        • What's Up Egypt?
        • Good Morning Egypt
        • Stop Motion: How a Bill Becomes a Law
    • Seventh Grade
    • Eighth Grade >
      • Cuneiform
      • Student Creation in Photos: Global Collaboration
      • Finance >
        • Banks
  • Middle School PBL
    • Spring 2025: The Talking Walls
    • Fall 2024: A Hobbit Democracy
    • Spring 2024: Neighbors
    • Fall 2023: Witness Trees
    • Spring 2023: Environmental Justice Stories
    • Fall 2022: Sustainable Space
    • Spring 2022: Allies
    • Fall 2021: Renaissance
    • Fall 2021: Alexander von Humboldt
    • Spring 2021: Exploration
    • Fall 2020: Activism
    • Spring 2020: The Road Less Traveled
    • Fall 2019: Neighbors
    • Spring 2019: Take A Stand
    • Fall 2018: Citizens
    • Spring 2018: Bridging History
    • Fall 2017: Voices
    • Spring 2017: Choose Your Own
    • Fall 2016: Democracy is a Verb
  • Scrum
    • Scrum Blog
    • In Action
  • Global Classroom
    • Global Classroom 2023-2024
    • Global Classroom 2022-2023
    • Global Classroom 2021-2022
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    • Global Classroom 2018-2019
  • Cardboard
    • Cardboard Library
    • Château du Clos Lucé
    • Space Helmets
    • Black History Celebration
    • Iron Man Mask
  • LEGO in Action
    • Marble Maze Challenge
    • Mesopotamia
  • 3D Printing
  • Glowforge
    • Black History Listening Project
  • SLICE
    • SLICE Overview
    • SLICE in photos
  • Epic Field Trips
    • Presidential Inauguration: Barack Obama
    • Chicago
    • New York City